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How fast can you validate UTF-8 strings in JavaScript?
When you recover textual content from the disk or from the network, you may expect it to be a Unicode string in UTF-8. It isContinue…
From Michael Nielsen
Biweekly links for 01/04/2010
How We Miscalculated | Print Article | Newsweek.com Andy Grove on the Intel floating-point bug. Interesting throughout, including this comment on how insulated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enduring Twitter
David Carr on why Twitter will endure. I agree that something like it will. Blogs take too much time and Twitter is about the right level of commitment for the...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New Years Resolutions
* Each of us talked to one school administrator and expressed our concerns about the lack of programs available for interested students? * Each of us took a moment...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links January 4th 2010
Happy New Year everyone. Are you back to school or work yet? I took two weeks off and really enjoyed myself. I didn’t spend much time on the Internet as usual so...
From Schneier on Security
Christmas Bomber: Where Airport Security Worked
With all the talk about the failure of airport security to detect the PETN that the Christmas bomber sewed into his underwear -- and to think I've been using the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Database Questions for 2010: What
I started 2009 with an interest in Web 2.0 OLAP and collaborative data processing. The field of collaborative data processing has progressed tremendously. Last...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2010-01-04
YouTube - SunStudioSessions's Channel This is a great YouTube channel. Some fantastic artists, complete with interesting videoMusic...
From Putting People First
Latest issue of Interactions Magazine now available
The January-February edition of Interactions Magazine — exploring the evolving nature of experiences, people and technology — is online and some articles are available...
From Putting People First
Race shapes teen Facebook and MySpace adoption, says danah boyd
Two years ago, ethnographer danah boyd had the blogosphere abuzz with her look at class-based divisions between teens on MySpace and Facebook, writes Dana Oshiro...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Where the jobs are
Every second year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics provides a ten-year forecast of job growth in all fields of employment.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping the World
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are an old interest of mine. They were used in the enterprise a number of times. Integrity Logic provides a nice view ofShuttle...
From Putting People First
The Apparatgeist calls
How you use your mobile phone has long reflected where you live. But the spirit of the machines may be wiping away cultural differences, claims The Economist. The...
From Putting People First
Now even medical doctors are launching design firms
Jay Parkinson, MD, MPH, is a doctor in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, who uses his experience in both clinical and preventive medicine to design consumer experiences and...
From Putting People First
Free yourself from oppression by technology
That new phone or laptop may be giving you a warm glow, but beware a stealth attack on your happiness, warns Yair Amichai-Hamburger in The New Scientist. “Our lifestyles...
From Putting People First
Mobiles offer new view of reality
The BBC thinks that Augmented reality (AR) “is set to explode” this year. “Futurologist Ian Pearson predicts an explosion of such services next year. “I’m surprised...
From Putting People First
Seeing customers as partners in innovation
A freelance writer reports for the New York Times on 3M Company
From Putting People First
A thank you to our web service provider Aventure Host
On December 31st 2009 we finished the process of moving our websites and our mail services to Italy. Since the beginning of our company, we had hosted our websites...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Patents EMG Controller
From Engadget: Not sure of the appropriateness of the patent application, but I like the continuing work at trying to find replacements for ways to control the...
From My Biased Coin
How Much Grading Should Professors Do?
One of the outcomes of the Harvard budget crisis is that the budget for Teaching Assistants has been brought into line. At Harvard, we've been ridiculously spoiled...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science